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American Family and a Character Study of Ma Joad in The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck

In five pages this paper examines the Joad family matriarch featured in this classic American novel in a consideration of her role...

Comic Approaches of James Thurber

In ten pages this essay examines how 20th century American experiences were so accurately portrayed by humorist James Thurber. Th...

Gothic Hero Edgar Allan Poe in 'Ligeia' and 'The Fall of the House of Usher'

won, beating out a number of well-known short story writers. Poe needed money badly, and decided to embark on a side career as a s...

African Colonialism

A. Abu Boahen gives an unusual view of the colonial experience in African Perspective on Colonialism. Most books take the European...

The Concept of Urban Growth Boundaries

not only feasible, but financially profitable for a particular region. Dunn (1997) says that urban growth boundaries are sorely n...

Eyewitness Accounts of Holocaust Survival

lived, who died, who had a decent job, or was worked to death depended largely on luck and on not panicking when confronted by the...

Revitalization Efforts and the Central Business District

In five pages this paper discusses cities of the Midwest and central business district's revitalization efforts with the Paducah, ...

1830s' Lives of American Women

In five pages this paper considers the differences in 2 autobiographies and 1 diary chronicles the varied experiences of 1830s' Am...

Hip Dysplasia in Dogs

The abnormal movement eventually causes arthritis, discomfort and lameness" (Boyd, 1997, p. 10E). Even though dogs can - and usua...

A Comparison of Henry VIII's Wives

Two of the six wives of King Henry VIII are discussed. The wives discussed have had very different experiences. This six page pap...

An Example Report on Airline Carriers

In this example paper consisting of five pages the purser of a major airline is employed in order to present a firsthand perspecti...

Walt Whitman vs. Emily Dickinson

each individual word. Yet, paradoxically, poetry is that art form in which what is unsaid is often as important--or more importan...

'Drowned Man of Esthwaite' by William Wordsworth

This Wordsworth poem is considered in six pages, considering the poet's childhood experiences in the prose about a drowned man and...

A Sample Medical School Admissions Essay

pursue a lifetime of work in the medical field are at least twofold: For one thing, any relevant capacity certainly puts me in a u...

Criminal Justice and a Model Personal Statement Essay

In three pages this paper is a sample of a criminal justice graduate school application's personal statement that features a ficti...

Transfixed Characteristics and Intelligence

This essay consists of five pages and presents the argument that intelligence is not a transfixed trait in a consideration of pred...

Working With Celebrities is Not Fun and Games

In eight pages this paper dispels the myth that working with motion picture celebrities is a pleasant experience. Fourteen source...

Julius Caesar's Successor Caesar Augustus

5 pages and 4 sources used. This paper provides an overview of the life experiences and personal accomplishments of Julius Caesar...

Examination of Charity Care

In twelve pages the writer draws upon personal experience as an NJ State Legislature's 20th District intern to discuss charity car...

Causes and Types of Amnesia

In twelve pages the types and brain conditions causing amnesia are first discussed with a description of how memory and the brain ...

American Celebration in 'Song of Myself' by Walt Whitman

feeling his relationship with all other Americans. Uniquely American Most of Whitmans poetry illustrates what can be accu...

Howl by Allen Ginsberg and Song of Myself by Walt Whitman

to punctuation for Ginsberg is to describe his howling. He writes that he has witnessed: "Ten years animal screams and suicides!...

Poems That Reveal Joy Harjo's Life and Art

Reservation in Oklahoma. Harjo has retained the storytelling brilliance of her ancestors in her spiritually moving works, and t...

Humanity and the Origin of Racial Prejudice

In nine pages this paper considers where prejudice among the races originated and compares the bias that Asian Americans and Afric...

Personal Growth and Love

In five pages this paper describes a personal growth experience that reveals how for one young woman absence can make the heart gr...

Depression and African American Women

In eight pages this research paper discusses how there are factors unique to the life experiences of African American women that d...

Dying, Death, and Bereavement Essays

In ten pages brief essays considering dying, death, and bereavement are presented in a consideration of terminal illness and child...

Comparative Analysis of Works by William James and Robert Orsi

104 degrees Fahrenheit might be a much more favorable temperature for truths to germinate and sprout in than the more ordinary blo...

War and Ernest Hemingway

World War II battles in Across the River and into the Trees, this knowledge came from research and not from Hemingways personal wa...

Contrasting Modern Psychiatry with Treatments Featured in 'Girl Interrupted' and 'One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest'

Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest", produced during the 1970s. "One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest" presents a bleak yet amusing picture of ...